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Coachee, subs. (colloquial).—A coachman. Cf., Cabby. 1819. Thos. Moore, Tom Crib's Mem. Cong, p. 79. This song in which the language and sentiments of Coachee are transferred so ingeniously. 1825. English Spy, I., pp. 134-5.

Coaching, verbal subs. (common).—1. Instruction; training, etc.—See Coach, subs. French students call it la barbe. 1836. Pluck Examination Papers for Candidates at Oxford and Cambridge, by Scriblerus Redivivus [Oxford]. The system of coaching pupils considerably improved by the examiners becoming pupils.

2. (Rugby School).—A flogging. Now obsolete.

Coachman, subs. (anglers').—A fly-fisher's rod. [In allusion to whipping the stream.]

Coach-Wheel, subs. (popular).—A crown-piece, or five shillings. For synonyms, see Cart-wheel. 1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue. Coach wheel: a half crown piece is a fore coach wheel, and a crown piece a hind coach wheel, the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones.

Coal.—See Cole.

TO TAKE IN ONE'S COALS, or winter coals, phr. (nautical).—To contract a venereal disease. For synonyms, see Ladies' fever.

Coal-Box, subs. (musical).—A chorus. [Obviously 'music-hally' or 'circussy' in derivation: a cross between rhyming slang and a clown's wheeze (q.v.).] 1809-70. Mark Lemon, Up and Down London Streets. The slang word for chorus, coal box, if we might mention anything so ungenteel.

Coaley, subs. (common).—A coal-heaver, or porter. 1880. Jas. Greenwood, 'Diddler Domesticus,' in Odd People in Odd Places, p. 93. With such arguments the bargain is driven to a conclusion, and the grateful Coaley takes his departure. 1889. Star, 3 Dec, p. 3, col. 4. The COALIES demonstrated last night in right novel fashion at St. Pancras Arches.

Coaling or Coally, adj. (theatrical).—Among 'pros' a coally or coaling part is one that is grateful to the player. [Hotten says it means 'profitable,' and derives it from cole = money, but this is doubtful.—See quot.] 1872. M. E. Braddon, Dead Sea Fruit, ch. xiv. The gorger's awful coally on his own slumming, eh? I mean to say that our friend the manager is rather sweet upon his own acting.

Coal-Scuttle, subs. (common).—A poke bonnet; modish once, but now reserved for old-fashioned Quakeresses and 'Hallelujah Lasses.' [From the shape.] 1838. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby. There was Miss Snevellici glancing from the depths of her coal-scuttle bonnet at Nicholas.

Coat. To get the sun into a horse's coat, phr. (racing).—Explained by quot.

1889. Standard. 'Sir Chas. Russell's Speech in Durham - Chetwynd Case,' June 25. An owner says to his trainer, 'I suppose, Mr. Jones, we'll have very good luck to-morrow?' (laughter). 'Well no, sir,' says the trainer; 'I don t think the horse has any chance to-morrow. The fact is, he isn't fit.' A fortnight elapses, and on comes another meeting at Newmarket, and the owner goes down again, and he sees the horse. To his uninitiated eye the horse seems as well as when he saw it on the previous occasion. In the interval the trainer had 'slipped in a lot of work into him,' I think that is the term, and the owner, who thinks he knows something about horses (laughter) says to his trainer 'You're going to run this horse